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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS • ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 19, 2007 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Acceptance of 2007 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Grant Award Packet Clint Osbom, 968 -2050 PURPOSE: To accept the 2007 Emergency Management Performance Grant from the State Emergency Management Agency to help support the County emergency management • programming. BACKGROUND: The State provides grants to local governments to help support local emergency management programs. The grant is based on the county population and a share of the program cost. Counties with a population over 200,000 are eligible for a 100 percent matching cost grant based on certain emergency management functions. Counties with less than a population of 200,000 are eligible for a fifty (50) percent match. The grants are awarded each year and may vary depending on the federal funding available. This grant has been awarded to Orange County for multiple years to offset the personnel costs of the Emergency Management Specialist position in Emergency Services, and a portion of the Health Department position coordinating the Community Emergency Response Team program, as well as other operating costs. Associated revenues have been included in each year's budget. • Staff was notified that the County could again apply for funding under this program for the period from October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2007 with the application due no later than Wednesday May 16th. The Board approved the application on May 3, 2007. The grant was awarded during the BOCC summer recess. FY Grant Award 2003 -04 $39,694 2004 -05 $40,366 2005 -06 $32,354 2006 -07 1 $29,887